The National Review was founded in 1883 by the English writers Alfred Austin and William Courthope .

It was launched as a platform for the views of the British Conservative Party, its masthead incorporating a quotation of the former Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli:

What is the Tory Party, unless it represents National feeling?

Under editor Leopold Maxse, the National Review took an unfriendly attitude towards Imperial Germany in the years leading up to World War I.

Editors of the National Review

• (1883-1887) Alfred Austin with William Courthope
• (1887-1893) Alfred Austin
• (1893-1932) Leopold Maxse
• (1932-1948) Violet Milner
• (1948-1954) Edward Grigg
• (1954-1960) John Grigg

References

• Hutcheson, John A. (1989). Leopold Maxse and the National Review, 1893-1914: right-wing politics and journalism in the Edwardian era. New York: Garland Publishing Inc. ISBN 0824078187.

External links

• The Genesis of the "A.B.C." Memorandum of 1901.